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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
4
Weslaco High School Panthers prepare to host Thomas Edison High Bears of San Antonio in a Christmas schoolboy clash touted as the Valleys standout post season game. Wardlet leads a travel-minded squad with key backs and linemen named, hoping for a victory and a return by Monday.
Walter Morris promotional director for the southern division of organized baseball plans an EA investigation into a proposed sigh tlib league in lower towns. He travels Thursday through Matamoros Laredo Nuevo Laredo Mission San Benito and other sites to study the loop’s status and potential international reach.
Kerrville students depart Friday on a special one day train to Amarillo for the state championship game between the Antlers and the Golden Sandstroom. Scouts report a 20 hour journey with stopovers in Lubbock and San Antonio. The trip costs 9.26 for the round trip and is funded by local businessmen who pledged 700 to cover student travel.
Des Moines in the Western League joins San Antonio of the Texas League and Torre Haule of the Thres-T Loop as affiliates for the St Louis Browns of the American League. The deal allows the Browns to select promising Mayers from the clubs and send players for seasoning as part of the arrangement.
Tulane's 1937 grid schedule lists all games with changes. Centenary and Ed Loltmann are noted, Clemson and Mississippi College added, with games at Auburn Colgate North Carolina and others, spanning October to November with Alabama, Georgia and LSU on the slate.
A chaotic sport round up reflects on Christmas wishes and memories for figures like Schmeling and Anderson, notes Yale loss revenge, Princeton beating Yale, Indiana scoring 149 in early games, and mentions coaching debates. It mixes personal tributes with sports gossip and unrest over wrestling rules.
In a cryptic fragment from Kelton Moore and Consicana Dee, backfield details appear for Central Texts sports coverage. The garbled note mentions Hillshore Eagle and Thomas Mane Ware as backs and a selection for a District Joat & Benquet, with Central Texts writers at a wary last ehh.
Kerrville, led by star Tittle and coach Anders, travels to Amarillo for a title bid in a Texas high school football showdown. Injuries linger as San Antonio–to–Lubbock preparation tightens plans, while Amarillo eyes a sellout crowd of about 7,000 at game time.
A roundup of colorful local sports and personalities. Margaret Thornton from San Antonio shines in a Washington tennis finale after a single year. San Antonio Country Club pro Joe Keutman linked to Tessa Wills Moody. Amarillo men bet $1000 on Kerrville football. Fiesta dates and spring meetings loom. Bowl season and forward passes feature. Sergeant Socks Bowrrsork moves to Fort Sam Houston. Rafter the horse loses a claim, McClure and McCarl noted at Fort Worth orphan home high school. Kerrville hopes hinge on ground attack and selective passing.
British yachtsman Sopwith said he plans to fish near New York for six weeks aboard the Caroline off the Providence coast, then return to supervise preparations for the Endeavor trans Atlantic race. He and Mrs. Sopwith arrived aboard the Europa to start a non racing voyage. The America's Cup contests are slated for July.
New York December reports outline a troubled path to the Louis Pastor bout with Joe Thomas. Promoters Jacobs and Madivin clash over live services terms while Schmeling Braddock plans drift, and a potential New York state fight remains blocked by the athletic commission amid conflicting statements.
Washington December 24 The Bureau of Wildlife Survey tests artificial nesting islands to raise wild duck birth rates. Spring rains push water levels, sweeping potential nest sites away, so officials opt to educate ducks and place table-sized floating islands anchored to river bottoms across game preserves.
Edinburg Bigh Srneol Lobcats under Coach Bobby Cannon begin 1937 basketball with a January 5 home game against Pharr San Susan Alamo Hear. Remaining schedule lists January 7 at Mission and other January and February trips including McAllen Edinburg Mercedes Opaha Pharr Mission Bailey and Donna ap Edinburg.
The New York state athletic commission refused to approve the heavyweight bout between Gunnar Bound and Clarence Burman scheduled for January 6 at the Hippodrome. The board cited Burman as an unsuitable opponent and noted Burman’s recent Texas defeat by Tom Beaupre as a factor. Some believed the decision was a “hurt town” move, though successors could reconsider if reports change.
Alamo Downs faces a crisis with 1300 race horses housed in cramped barns and private buildings. Sixty-five animals were moved from California, while 45 are unaccounted for and 20 stabled near the track. Officials weigh options as weather impacts plans for a Sunday open house and upcoming races.
Jay W. Montgomery, superintendent of Phoenix High, announced Head Coach R R Robinson would become athletic director and a new football mentor would be sought. Robinson, a former Colorado Agetes grid star, spent 16 years producing many Southwestern championship elevens at the school.
North Carolina State alumni group plans to air the college athletic situation before the 1987 general assembly. The effort centers on Hunk Anderson, former Notre Dame mentor, whose three year State coaching contract was renewed for one year, amid friction blamed on UNC President Frank Graham and Dean Marrelson.
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